Hear me crying
My children are dying at your white hands
My black skin fades
Ever so slowly to white
Your
Money saves not one of us
Black lives thrown to the wolves of Canberra
Our children’s eyes still weep with puss
Our noses run
Our bodies are racked with pain
Our rights are gone
Our kids are in gaols
Our women are raped
Our children feel hopeless
Our teachers despair
For
We own no land in Toorak
Yet
Gondwana land was ours for a while
About 40,000 years
Everyone is crying here
Mothers are sobbing
Our men still drink to excess
Our children are still sniffing glues and petrol
Your schools offer little hope
For blacks
Christianity has not preserved our race
Can you not hear our cry?
Can you not hear a Blackman’s voice?
To save our children
And
Give Toorak back
HiPaul,
I have used your poem as an analysis
in a year 11 english assessment,
which is to do with our area of study
‘out of control’
i find it as a good relation to the topic as
the australian government took conrtol of
the aboriginal child possession and land rights.
i have referenced the poem on my assessment,
to the website
and i hope you dont mind,
thanks heaps 🙂
Amy
x
Hi Paul,
I have also used your poem for an english assignment but I’m in yr 8 at a good school. When I read this poem I knew at once, that my english teacher would like it and I got an A for my assignment. So thank you for the poem and I wish you the best for more poems!!!
Kalinda
Dem blak boyz of da future
Dey no good
Always makin noise in my head
I no idea why
Dem boyz take a dump in a KFC box
Chuck it through a window
It piss me off
Dem boyz beta stop
Coz I will be a very mad man
Kick dem ass good
Me and no-noonga get mad and throw a bick at em?
It hit em hard
I laugh
I unno how to stop em from being bad so I say
Take dem boyz up to airs rock
Then chuck em off
Dem boys do nuffing bad no more
I ALSO USED YOUR POEM FOR YR11 ASSIGNMENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Paul,
This is a really great poem. I would just like to thank you for creating it for i have used it in an assignment for my half yearlies. Great poem very easy to understand, thank you for all the help.
Nicholas
HiPaul,
I have used your poem as an analysis
in a year 11 english assessment,
which is to do with our area of study
?out of control?
i find it as a good relation to the topic as
the australian government took conrtol of
the aboriginal child possession and land rights.
i have referenced the poem on my assessment,
to the website
and i hope you dont mind,
thanks heaps 🙂
Michael
and amy dont copy my writing. ;[
hey Paul,
like lots of other people i have also used your poem for a year 9 assignment (hope you don’t mind).
I had to write a speech about a poem that related to rabbit proof fence. when i read it, i thought this was the one.
sarah
can i use it in my wide reading for english?
thanks.
hayy paul,
jus wonderin if i could use this poem in an english assignment.
im in yr9 nd wud luv to use itt
(sozz weneva i type i use slang)
btw ur poems are GREAT!!
ive read nearlly every 1!!!!!!
HI Paul,
For a year 10 assignment i’m compariong your song with the political meaning of the song “Beds are burning”
Thankx it’s a great poem 🙂
i used this for a grade 11 assignment thanks heaps your poems are awesome :)x
Hi Paul,
Like the others, i am using your poem to prepare for my speech next week, hope you dont mind! Wish u all the best!
Hi paul,
How are you hope you are doing great well i just wanted to say that you are a great poet. This poet really helped me for my Society and Environment subject. So thank you very much. You are a great person with a very great mind.
Thank you.
Hey how are you hope you are doing great well i think that this poem is very nice and very touchy. I really loved it but could you please tell me the meaning for this. I am doing it for a society and environment subject. Thanks a lot.
Have a great day!
Paul, your poem is lovely! Thank you so much for sharing, I enjoyed it. (: